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Re: need hostname on menu


From: Didier Spaier
Subject: Re: need hostname on menu
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:33:33 +0100
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Sorry for the faulty paste, please keep only the part quoted below:

Le 24/01/2021 à 10:28, Didier Spaier a écrit :
<snip>> Hi,> > Le 24/01/2021 à 01:52, Humphrey van Polanen Petel a écrit :>> However, it seems to me that it would be a lot more useful to add a >> parameter allowing the user to display the name of the install from >> /etc/hostname.>> I won't repeat what grub developers said but in addition:> > 1) Other users could want to customize the name including an information> not available in /etc/hostname, like e.g. /etc/os-release> > 2) the customization is easy to do by the user or the package maintainer or> the distribution maintainer and there are several ways to do that, like:> a) Edit by hand grub.cfg> b) Write a customized config file as /etc/grub.d/<nn>_<name>.> c) Write a script that customizes grub.cfg after having run grub-mkconfig> or update-grub.> d) Write a  wrapper script that runs grub-mkconfig or update-grub then do> the customization.> > Have a good day,> Didier



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